From: Arun Sharma <asharma@fb.com>
To: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>, <netdev@vger.kernel.org>,
<linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] net: compute a more reasonable default ip6_rt_max_size
Date: Fri, 25 May 2012 17:44:39 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4FC02777.5070003@fb.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20120525.201150.1782581593120395710.davem@davemloft.net>
On 5/25/12 5:11 PM, David Miller wrote:
>> These were not admin configured routes. They were discovered via ipv6
>> neighbor discovery.
>
> Then such default routes should either be:
>
> 1) Passed over by GC
>
> 2) Trigger neighbour discovery when GC'd
It's possible that there is a bug somewhere - we didn't get a chance to
dig deeper. What we observed is that as we got close to the 4096 limit,
some hosts were becoming unreachable. A modest increase in the routing
table size made things better.
-Arun
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-05-26 0:44 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-05-25 20:15 [PATCH] net: compute a more reasonable default ip6_rt_max_size Arun Sharma
2012-05-25 20:26 ` David Miller
2012-05-25 20:47 ` Eric Dumazet
2012-05-25 22:22 ` Arun Sharma
2012-05-25 22:51 ` David Miller
2012-05-26 0:08 ` Arun Sharma
2012-05-26 0:11 ` David Miller
2012-05-26 0:44 ` Arun Sharma [this message]
2012-05-26 3:39 ` Eric Dumazet
2012-05-26 4:17 ` Eric Dumazet
2012-05-27 3:54 ` Arun Sharma
2012-05-27 13:18 ` Eric Dumazet
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2012-05-30 23:50 Lubashev, Igor
2012-06-04 19:04 ` Lubashev, Igor
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